Barack Obama won the re-election for a second term as the President of the United States of America. Obama won 303 electoral votes against Governor Mitt Romney’s 206 votes, according to the Huffington Post. Hours before the announcement of President Barack Obama’s election victory, it seemed many USF students already knew who would win the [...]

I am the apathetic weight dragging this nation down. In two weeks, over 100 million Americans will cast their votes, and I will not be one of them. Both campaigns and their many acolytes on TV, Twitter, Facebook and street corners keep telling me that this is one of the most important elections in our [...]

As I turned on the television to tune into the first presidential debate of the 2012 election, I expected an impressive showdown between Romney Robo-Cop and the great American hope, President Obama himself. What I expected and what was delivered were so drastically different, at times I had to pinch myself throughout the debate. I [...]

As excited as I am about voting in my first presidential election, I am increasingly jaded with both the Republican and Democratic candidates for President. As a woman, LGBTQ ally and someone who managed to pass a high school economics class, backing the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan ticket is not a sensible option. However I cannot, [...]

If you’re registered to vote in California, and feel like the Electoral College will throw your presidential vote into a sea of democratic blue, fear not.There are still reasons to get to the polls! There are 11 high-stakes propositions in November’s ballot that will be both define the future of our state and course of [...]

“The process of voting,” said Corey Cook, “is important in part because it’s a gateway to...political and civic engagement” even when “it is very unlikely for a single vote to matter in any contest.” said Corey Cook